The days ahead could help us out a little more, if they would. April is Denver’s fifth-snowiest month with an average of 6.8 inches over the past 30 years. Limb-snapping snowstorms are no stranger to the Mile High City in April. Three of Denver’s 14 biggest blizzards occurred in April.

The National Weather Service’s outlook for the month ahead, however, shows “a bias toward above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation.” And if the month ahead doesn’t seem enough like the month that just passed, “the persistent pattern of periodic windy conditions can be expected east of the Continental Divide,” the National Weather Service predicts.

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